There’s a big-hearted fearlessness in Michael Parker’s work that, quite honestly, I envy.—
Colum McCann ,
winner of the National Book award for Let the Great World Spin

Michael Parker

Michael Parker is the author of six novels—Hello Down There, Towns Without Rivers, Virginia Lovers, If You Want Me To Stay, The Watery Part of the World, and All I Have In This World—and two collections of stories, The Geographical Cure, and Don’t Make Me Stop Now. A new collection of very short fiction, Everything, Then and Since, is forthcoming in summer 2017 from Bull City Press. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in dozens of journals including Five Points, the Georgia Review, The Idaho Review, the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, Oxford American, Shenandoah, The Black Warrior Review, Trail Runner and Runner’s World. He has received fellowships in fiction from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Hobson Award for Arts and Letters, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His work has been anthologized in the Pushcart, New Stories from the South and O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies.
A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia, he is the Nicholas and Nancy Vacc Distinguished Professor in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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